Sir Syed University admissions academic session 2011

Sir Syed University starts admission process
Karachi, Sept 16: The two-month long admission process at the Sir Syed University
of Engineering and Technology (SSUET) to admit some 1,800 students in
different engineering disciplines for the 2011 academic session
commenced on Wednesday. Students having 60 percent marks in HSc
pre-engineering, general science, pre-medical would be eligible for
admissions into Electronics, Computer Engineering, Biomedical,
Telecommunication and Civil Engineering departments. According to the
schedule, October 29 was the last date for submission of application
forms which would be followed by the admission test on November 7, while
interviews would be held from November 8 to 12. SSUET Registrar Shah
Mahmood H Syed said that last year some 1,500 students were granted
admissions while facilities have been upgraded to accommodate 1,800
students for admission this year. app

"have completed my diploma.i have got 73% in fist and second year but im wating for resut of my final year.im sure i will get atlest 70% in my final year.Can i apply for civil engineering.? Please inform me.. Thanks"
Name: sarosh
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"i have done fsc (pre-eng) in 2011. i have got 61% in first year and now i am waiting for result of second year. can i apply for civil engineering. please inform me as soon as possible.THANKS"
Name: nauman salman
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City, Country:Karachi, Pakistan

"Salam Alykum, I have done my Diploma in Civil Eng (DAE), in 2009 and now i want to take admission,in BS in Computer Science...?, So can you plz help about admission. and confirm me about Entry test date as well. plz reply me.... Thanks Raza"
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City, Country: karachi

Back to school can mean a return to head lice worries
Karachi: They're the ultimate creepy crawler. Creatures that truly give people
the willies. And they're apt to make you feel unclean, or maybe even a
bad parent (neither of which, experts say, is valid).

Head lice truly
are nasty little buggers - parasitic insects that infest the head,
eyebrows and eyelashes of their human hosts and cause the creepiest
tickling sensation along the scalp.

They're a worldwide phenomenon,
but in the United States they infect mostly school-age children,
according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health
experts estimate that 6 million to 12 million US kids, 3 to 11 years
old, get infested each year.

Vigilance is the key to heading off an
infestation, said Deborah Altschuler, president of the National
Pediculosis Association, a nonprofit group aimed at head lice
prevention.

"The best way is to know what to look for, screen often and detect the problem as soon as possible," she said.

Any
child can get head lice. Dr. David Flinders, a family physician in
Provo, Utah, stressed that getting head lice shouldn't reflect badly on
children who have them or on the children's families.

"People often
think it's associated with poor hygiene or low socioeconomic status,"
Flinders said. But, he said, "an affluent person is just as likely to
get head lice as someone from a lower socioeconomic status."

Head lice spread through close contact. They can't jump or fly so they must crawl between people who are touching each other.

"It
comes from person-to-person, head-to-head," Flinders said. "It's mostly
a disease of elementary school kids because they're pretty intimate.
They are touching heads when whispering and talking, or taking naps
together." Head lice also can spread through the sharing of combs or
hairbrushes.

Today, more ways than ever exist to prevent infestations
from occurring and to effectively get rid of head lice. But preventing
head lice first and foremost means reducing their ability to spread
between people, Flinders and Altschuler said. That includes:

*
Having shorter hair. "Girls with longer hair are more likely to pick up
head lice than boys or girls with shorter hair," Flinders said.

*
Checking a child's hair regularly for lice or lice eggs, which are also
called nits. "If you wait, or you don't know to be diligent, you may
find yourself with a lot tougher problem," Altschuler said.

Her
association recommends that parents comb their children's hair a couple
times a week, or at bath time, using a special fine-toothed comb able to
sweep lice and nits out of a child's hair.

"We say comb first because a quality comb is a wonderful tool to help you remove what you can't even see," she said.

Even with these precautions, a child might still get head lice. In that case, parents need to shift into treatment mode quickly.

Most
doctors recommend using over-the-counter or prescription lice
treatments that contain mild pesticides such as pyrethrins, which are
extracted from chrysanthemums. "They appear to be pretty safe for
humans, except for infants," Flinders said. "It is difficult to
eradicate an infestation without resorting to pesticides."

However, Altschuler's group is among those who don't like the idea of using such treatments.

"It's
one of the only times a parent would directly apply a pesticide to
their child," Altschuler said. "Parents need to get to the problem as
early as possible so they can avoid the use of chemicals or pesticides."

Instead,
she recommends that parents brush the lice and nits out of an infested
child's hair. It's a painstaking process that must be repeated daily
because a new infestation can easily occur if any nits or lice are
missed, but her group believes it's safer than pesticides. Another
non-chemical option now available, the LouseBuster, is a device that
uses heated air to kill off lice and nits. "It forces hot air at high
temperatures into hair," Flinders said. "That will dehydrate the lice."
An oral systemic medication, ivermectin, also has been used for
hard-to-treat cases of lice infestation, Flinders said. The medication
kills adult lice as they bite into a person, but it won't kill off nits,
which means the infestation will continue until all existing eggs have
hatched. Other points to remember include:

* It's kids who mostly fall prey to head lice, but everyone in a family needs to be checked.

* Repeated treatments will be needed to completely rid the infested person of lice, no matter what form of treatment is used.

* Be sure to vacuum furniture and run all bedclothes through a dryer to help keep the lice from spreading.

"If
your child becomes infested, don't panic," Flinders said. "It doesn't
mean your child has poor hygiene or you're a bad parent or you've done
something wrong. Just treat the problem, and be sure to check
everybody." More information The Nemours Foundation has more on head
lice. For more on battling head lice, read about a school nurse's view
from the front lines.

KU confers degrees
Karachi: The University of Karachi (KU) has awarded eight M.Phil, 14 PhD, and two MS degrees to
the candidates from various departments. The university has extended
the date of submission of application forms for the posts of Professors,
Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and lecturers to September
30, 2010.

Teachers seeking pay raise threaten to close varsity
Peshawar: Teachers of the University of Peshawar Wednesday warned to
close the university and other institutions on the campus from September
20 if the 50 per cent increase in salaries announced by the government
was not given to the university employees.

The threat was hurled as
the employees of public sector universities started the protest drive by
wearing black bands on their arms and observing one-hour boycott from
duty. Provincial president of the Federation of All Pakistan Academic
Staff Association Prof Dr Mohammad Fida said that the protest would
intensify when the universities reopen.

Peshawar University Teachers
Association (PUTA) President Prof Dr Johar Ali in a letter to chairman
of the Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Javed Laghari, warned of
shutting the educational institutions on the university campus if the
employees were not given 50 percent increase in salaries announced by
the prime minister.

Dr Johar Ali said they were under extreme
pressure from members of the association to take a tough stand, as they
were angry at the discriminatory attitude of the government towards the
employees of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa universities who were yet to get 50
percent raise in salaries.

He said the increase announced by the
federal government in the budget had been given to university employees
in rest of the provinces. He said the university employees had started a
token strike by wearing black bands and would close down the campus
from September 20, 2010 if their demand was not met. "The non-payment of
increase in salaries to the university employees in the province is
clear violation of the directives of the prime minister," Dr Johar Ali
argued.

AIOU to give admission on result cards
Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on Wednesday announced
that the continuing students of the varsity can get admission in the
next higher programme by submitting their result cards only.

AIOU
Director Admissions Sohail Nazir Rana said that the facility is
announced for the students whose last semester's result has been
declared till September 10.

They can submit their admission forms by attaching result cards instead of provisional certificate/degree.

The
admission will be granted after verification of the result cards from
Examination Department of the University, the director clarified.

This
facility has been announced due to possibility of deferment in getting
degree or provisional certificate and to save the precious time of
students.

The admission forms and prospectus are available from the
main campus of University at Sector H-8 as well as from its all Regional
Campuses/Offices around the country.

The last date for submission
the admission form alongwith late fee is September 20. Sohail said that
the candidates are advised to deposit the admission forms alon gwith
prescribed fee in any branch of First Women Banks, Bank Al-Falah, Allied
Bank across the country while in nominated branches of National Bank
and Habib Bank of Pakistan. The news